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“They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish—expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other’s spaces liquidly. Making it look easy, the soul-mate thing. People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Although he called himself a Christian, I had a hard time correlating his vicious gossip, bigoted expressions, and arrogant manner as such. I often thought if God’s heaven was filled with creatures like him, maybe that’s not where I wanted to end up.”
― Whistling Woman
― Whistling Woman
“I’m no expert, but I know one thing about anger—it’s like alcohol. At some point, if you pour enough in there, it’s coming back up. You may think you’ve built up a tolerance, but the truth is this—no man, not even Unc, can bury it so deep that it doesn’t erupt at some point like Vesuvius and splatter your soul across the earth.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“He’s calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That’s what men do: They try to make it sound like you are the Cool Girl so you will bow to their wishes.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“If manhood is passed down, if it is a mantle cut from the cloth of one and draped across another, it is not done so using titles or accolades. Not hardly. It occurs there—in that spout now resting neck-high—pouring down the spine and into the belly in a language that has never been transcribed, but that every boy on the planet understands and has always understood.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
Amy Walsh Scott’s 2025 Year in Books
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